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Leering v. College: Patients With Benefits

On February 2 the Ontario Court of Appeal rendered its decision in Leering v. College of Chiropractors of Ontario, 2010 ONCA 87, a professional ethics/discipline case concerning the stiff prohibition on sexual relations between medical professionals and their patients. In December 2004, the appellant Vincent Leering, a chiropractor, commenced an intimate relationship with a woman. [...]